Mike Madigan knew for a very long time that the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI badly wanted to put his head on a spike.

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is challenging Gov. JB Pritzker, a fellow Democrat, to use his bully pulpit to strengthen ...

Springfield’s Bill Cellini and Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, to name just two — Madigan couldn’t bear not being at the epicenter of power in Illinois or the idea of abandoning the questionable practices ...

Editorial written by Chicago Tribune Board. Back in early 2009, Chicago’s storied Second City comedy theater created a satirical musical spoof of a former governor of Illinois, “Rod Blagojevich, ...

Columnist Rich Miller gives his take on the outcome of Mike Madigan's federal trial, just as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich ...

We discuss the federal trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wrapping up and President Trump's decision to ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

Once a political ally who helped launch Rod Blagojevich's career, Richard Mell became estranged from his son-in-law early in ...

And can President Trump find no one with a clean record to represent Americans as ambassadors? Crime pays, it seems, in Trump's orbit — including the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned.

A jury is still working toward a decision at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael ...

In the wake of today's verdict, former Gov. Pat Quinn renewed his call for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters ...

I’m sure that Republicans will now embrace the disgraced Democrat politician as one of their own because of their blind ...